The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 5, 1929, Page 3

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, m0 AUGUST 5, 1929 fage ‘inree The Boy Scout Jamboree French Reservists Thousands of bourgeois boy scouts are gathering in Liverpool, England, in Jamboree (world gathering). This Jamboree is in line with the Kellogg “peace” pact and the other capitalist maneuvers in preparatoin for an- other imperialist war. It is another smoke screen to fool the workers as| to the real aims of the bourgeoisie. At this Jamboree the American scout movement is well represented oy thousands of picked boy scouts to help to strengthen the “brother- hood” of man—a pacifist aim of the ‘out movement, There will soon be another world gathering. It will be an All-Union Pioneer meet to be held in the Soviet Union, To this gathering will come working class children from’all parts of the world. Unlike the aims of the scout movement, the aim of the All- Union Pioneer meet si to prepare the working class children for greater struggles against the capitalists and for the defense of the Soviet Union. The American working class children | will also be represented at this meet. Among these American worker: children will also be a representative of the Junior Section of the Labor Sports Union. It is very significant that the Junior Section will be rep- resented at this worker children’s meet for the Junior Section of Labor Sports Union is destined to play a| great role in the fight against the| boy scout movement in the United | States, History of the Boy Scout Movement. In order to properly estimate the forces of the coming Jamboree it is a prerequisite that we know the history of the boy scout movement. The history of the boy scout move- ment is a history of bourgeois inter- nationalism and national jingoism. Duuring hte period between 1905 and 1907, the boy scout movement was born in England and the United States, independent of each other. Ernest Thompson Satton, an Amer- ican writer and naturalist, formed a group of boys into an organization called: Woodcraft Indians, whom he taught to lead hte life of Indians, iving outdoors, following trails, ete. While in England, Baden Powell, a British general, organized a boy scout detachment bearing a military aracter. In the years that followed, the novement of Baden Powell became nore popular (after taking over the yest of the American movement) and ‘onsequently it gained great influ- ce in the United States. It also ipread to the other countries of the world—the bourgeoisie quickly rec- »gnizing its military value. This boy scout movement became opular because of its romantic ap- real to the youth. Its activities con- sisted mainly of camping, hiking, aature study, military drill with its liscipline and physical education. | The point of honesty and bravery rbove principles and activities, the! were also stressed. Besides the ‘ollowing slogans were fostered upon the movement: state service, world srotherhood, and general peace. In 1910 the representatives of separate countries met in London and formed an international boy scout organiza- tion. 4 This national spirit showed itself most sharply during the last impe- rialist war. Precisely at this time, when the international brotherhood and other pacifist tendencies should have been brought to the forefront, all scout organizations forgot these tendencies and came to serve their respective countries in hte military service as well as in the r in the slaughter of their “brother” scouts of the other countries. The complete bancruptey of these ideas and principles of the world scout movement let to a great deal of discord and in some instances to a split in certain sections of the movement. After the war the scout movement came out openly as the obedient tool of the bourgeois It went even further and became the} instrument of the bosses in the! struggle against the workers, heip- ing to form and recruit scabs, fgiht- ing strikers, ete. In Europe the working cl. see: ing the bancruptey of the Dourgeets|| scout movement began to withdraw the youth from these organizations, hut hte romance of scout life con- tinued to attract a great number of youth, who lacked sufficient cl. understanding to realize in whose benefit the scout. movement was working for. To the leaders of the working class it was quite evident that a class-conscious scout organization must be formed in order to counter- act the organization of the bour- geoisie. The first steps in this direc vakian workers in the y of 1919. This organization at first united all class-conscious workers’ children but later the political disagreements between the different parties devided the movement into three separate organizations, Communist, social- demoeratie and __ social-nationalist. | Since then efforts have been made by the Communists to unify these three groups but without success, thanks to the treacherous role of | the social-democrats, The organization of the working} class scout movement in Czecho-slo- vakia is only a beginning. In or to successfully fight the bourgeois boy and girl scout movement, it is necessary that the working cla: create its own scout organizations that will be attractive in their every | day activities so as to attract the | working youth from the bourgeois | scout organization. Scout Movement in U. 8. Here in Ungted States the working glass faces a serious problem in this _rapect. The bourgeois scout move- -_ , helping’ tion were taken by the Czecho-slo-| Shout “Long Live the Opens in Great Britain Communist Party” 4 ‘FRENCH RESERVISTS FA IT jment, both, boys and girls, attracts) PARIS, (By Mail).—Two thou- hundreds of thousands of children! sand reservists waiting at the rail- into its ranks—most of them chil- | way statio nof Lille for a special dren of the working clsas. This! train to take them to their garrison scout movement has all the resources | in Eastern France suddenly began of the bosses back of them, techncal | tg sing the “Internationale” and | leadership, training facilities, gyms|the “Revolution” to demonstrate | and abundant finances. Its leaders| their unwillingness to go. They | being recruited from the ranks of} aiso shouted “Vive le Parti Com-| the ROTC and other military organ- izations. | muniste!” The calling up of the trained re- In order to fight the boy scout |serves for military service purposes movement we must not only streng-|the preparation of thousands ot then and build up the Young Pioneers | workers for the next war. The re-| bu tthe Junior Section of the Labor |servists know this very «well and Sports Union must be given greater | have not the least intention of tak- | support. Since the Junior Section | ing the burden of the next war on| is a broad children’s organization |their shoulders. The Lille demon-| whose activities are broad and varied | stration, taking place as it did only i tis in a very good position to at- |a few weeks before the great inter-| tract the working class chlidren| national anti-war day of the prole-| from the scout movement into its/tariat of all countries is a good| ranks. In fact its activities can be| omen. Let us hope that the reserv- | broadened s othat it may eventually |jst movement will grow stronger become the working class boy scout) yet in the next few months, organization. | Since April 1st 30 demonstrations Besides the general support and as- | against the calling of the reserves | sintance of the labor movement in have taken place. Many thousand building the Junior Section of the |reservists thus registered their pro- L. S. U. the Pioneers must become | test against the machinations of | | the leaders of the section. They must | the war mongers. introduce self administration into the} The trained reserves of France Junior Section, without which a chil-|have shown that they are ceter- | dren's organization cannot be build|mined not to allow themselves to up. |be sacrificed for the profits of their | The activities of the Junior Sec-| oppressors. |tion will develop the working class | children physically, make them} | braver and give them steel nerves HA D and the sagacity necessary in the! class struggle of the workers. The! working youth educated in this spirit will, in a few years, give a strong line of fighters for the working class, ! with a strong will and character | whom the bourgeoisie will try in vail to attract into its scout movement. The international solidarity of the Brunswick Plant workers scout movement under the| banner of the Red Sports Interna- (Continued from Page One) tional will be a real brotherhood of| for jobs in other industries. The | boys and girls based on class in-| General Cigar Company takes the| terests and struggle. It will be a| same position. real force in the fight against the| The strikers can now see clearly chauvinistic scout movement whose, that the statement of the Trade Un- Latest Move of New spiritual leader is the British general| ion Educational League, that Hil-| and whose sponsors are the bour-| fers and the other A. F. of L offi geois governments, the church and/| cials would mislead them in their the whole capitalist class. struggle, is borne ou’ by the latest} events. The Trade Union Educa- COMMUNIST SHOP GAINS ___ | tional League calls upon the strik- PRAGUE (By Mail). — The shop | ers to reform their fighting line. to councils elections in the various un-| taise demands for the machine work- dertakings in the Bratislava district | ers, to continue and spread the have resulted as follows: The Liesig | strike. saat ; sugar factory, revolutionary anton: Urge Fighting Paes % two seats; social democrats, two| It also calls upon ihe Late |seats; cthers, three seats; the Nobel| to fight for the eae: ovine ee |dynamite works, revolutionary | @ll_ strikers and their pict union, four seats; social democrats,| 8tanted. “The ee He Te |one seat; christians, two seats, The | Machines,” the T. cba pander social democrats lost a seat while | quires that the workers must fig! i irtai ty for the equal distribution of work ee ee ma elned pete with the hours of labor reduced. Greater mass production means that the workers will not have work all UNCLE SHYLOCK’S AGENT the yaar *round. To make up for WASHINGTON, Aug. 4. — Edwin | iogt time the workers must not only C. Wilson, first secretary of the| demand the abolition of the wage American embassy at Paris, today cut, but must also demand increased was appointed unofficial observer | * ‘wages for all workers. The strug-| for the United States at the interna- gle for the right to belong to a; tional reparations meeting at the! union and against any discrimina-| Hague, Aug. 6. tion must be continued. Instead of | | ay Ee ETT individual picketing, the strikers | FINN REACTIONARIES OUT | must institute mass picketing, as HELSINGFORS, Finland, Aug. 4. one of the means of getting the ma- —The coalition government has re- §.hine workers in the plant to rejoin signed, the strike. Only through an effec-| tive struggle can victory be won.” TOBACCO KING DIES The T. U. E. L. calls upon the) BRIGHTON, England, Aug. 4. —| strikers at their next meeting to Eberhard Baron, multimillionaire to-| elect delegates to the Second Metro- bacco magnate, died on Friday. He! politan Area Trade Union Unity| took a sadistic pleasure in visiting | Conference to be held in New York, the most wretched quarters of Lon-| at Irving Plaza Hall, August 20, at don, finding needy workers and | 7.30 p.m. This is one of the many throwing them sops the better to| preliminary conferences being held keep them quiet, | throughout the United States in —— preparation for the Cleveland Trade COSTUME BALL ON THE Union Unity Convention, which will HUDSON FRIDAY, AUGUST 9TH.| create a new, fighting trade union | MOONLITE CRUISE center in the United States. Take Your Vacation --at— Unity Camp 50. New Bungalows in Process of Completion. A New Pump Just In- stalled. Grand Celebration at Opening of New Library Next Week. \ —BY TRAIN— —BY BUS— | From 125th St. or Grand Central Tue., 10 a, m. Wed, 2 p. m. | Station direct to Wingdale, N. Y. from 1800 7th Ave., cor. 110 St. Wingdale, N. Y. Tel; Wingdale 51 | seen our Ld for 209 shipping SonpaEiee It is The Seamen’s Institute - The ie: tars nner: |wages below the shipping board sce » “shipowner-Institute-Lay | Tt inistrationt scale, which in itself is bad enough.’ Manager” raise bed anc 0 t ( n ¢ Holy Flop House, Scab Agent That the institute hs; been created | 40 per cent. We have witnessed by the ship owners for their own in- often the brutality of the Institute}, all ncisles Fr RE TG terests can be cl and readily | y thugs. We i f Seaman Disrobes the “Club”; Lee Some Facts; seen when we survey the committees /enough the fo’ omic a ° Pas and executives in charge. s lodging sy: - ee pace -Gives Demands of Marine Workers ; of the “lay managers” of | too many s ae blited) cen the institute for the last few years tals to * looks like a shipping guide. We find the banne |Frank C. Munson of the notorious all these existing evils in its Munson line, “lay manager,” 1920; ministrative policy i with a a r ‘ Kermit Roosevelt, president of the | desire to remedy and rectify : i ? Roosevelt line and vice-president of |We seamen make the following < the Kerr line, “lay manager,” 1923; | mands. Sir T. A-hley Sparks (only big Brit- 1. Creation of a Seamen Ad- lines, “lay manager,” 1921. These very names are synonymous vei eae ‘ open shoppers” and “strike break-| “4 No discrimination because : of race, color, religion or hte lack $6 me ship, owners during! of religion, and up until 1929, were 5, ish ship owners have handles to their | ministration Committee comprised (4 Bey eae aoe jnames). Sir Sparks is the director! of seamen. tit he building aHe of the Cunard line, “lay manager,” 2. Abolition of all uniformed Wheje: | 1912; James Barber, who cuts or! private police. ; pet eee mene apven se (te tie) Ml os cncliatenceduetonrar ial Se : Barber, Orient and La Platta S. S. hotel rates, cheaper food and free Wi. In m of All care and stowage of seamen’s Real assistance to destitute r at 4 . $ and out also on the “Committee of Employ-| seamen. 8 a. or B 2 s at 6 | |ment and Se: BS. In I. The Seamen Administration 1 2 nstead 1921 seamen ited in Committee. f r n. and the institute, were $1,201,067. In| The Seamen Adm 1926 t had shrunk to $476,649. | mittee shall be ac |The ship owner “‘comriittee on sea- | prised of bona-fide men’s savings” had expertly per-|paid up union me formed their duties of “saving” sea-|the subsidiary j men’s wages for themselves, by the |them shall be paid a weekly wag simple method of curtailing the sup- "by the Seamen’s ( ply, that is be reducing seamen’s| They s tration ( nmittee seamen | bodi wages. . annually. Pee damarie seamen The Social Service Departtment. Its Powers and Dutie ‘lege of stowing Were you ever broke when on the) 1. The Seamen Admin : |beach? Without “flop” or “feed”? | Committee shall have numerical pa ak | Why didn’t you go to the so ity with all adminisrtation comm vice department of the. institute? | tees now existing, with the except They receive annually ,000 for of the Employment Committee which destitute seamen. Enough to pay Shall be appointed by the Seam for 80,000 beds or 120,000 meals! | Administration Con: Let us see what they have to say |cohsist of bona tee and seamen onl} dging be ‘about this 2. The Seamen Administratic ts led all de ite semen, Shoule Out of Their Own Mouths. Committee shall be empowered to 21 .T0omsS and b be occupied the In the annual report of the insti- appoint the Seamen-Monitor main lobby sha thrown oper tute, under “Social Service Activi-| 3. The Seamen Administration ‘9 “estitute seamen, who hall be ties,” we find: “If the work of the | Committee shall compose 50 per cent | { he 1 1 Institute is mere loose or sentimen- | Of the Relief Disbursing Commit V. A nce to Destitute Seamen. tal giving its expansion would be All funds donated from ou destitute of any element of surprise | Sources for the material aid of and would be unjustifiable, either| men and all departmental from the standpoint of social better- (hotel, lunch room, etc.) sh ment or Christian morals” — “the ! distributed by this latter com seamen are inexpert in the-art of| 4. The Administration Commit- living” — and again — “Relief work | tee shall see that all sivilian em- | unior has chiefly been conducted with the mane idea of impressing on seamen the ne- cessity of paying back what they Marine workers were infuriated | have received.” — Ch San chari following the attack by hired thugs 0% # Sound business basis! ; ; The “Hotel.” of the Seamen's Church Institute| ‘The institute officiall: 1 ed ir ordance with your own wishes! upon two seamen, Walter MacDon- sailor pays # fair pric On The Road To ald, (above), and William Barn-| ing and his food, for the off Bo ] S h e ViZ Za t i on shall, (left). Over two thousand dunnage and for other ser : : ae 4 are adjuncts to any great hotel. th with a seamen immediately joined in a|Wrat he does not nay for is the || é { spontaneous demonstration against| place in which he finds himself.” the “Institute.” In today’s issue of | Too bad they can’t charge us for the press Ay handbook for every the Daily Worker a marine worker | atmosphere or “the place in which J wericant gives some illuminating information we find ourselves For then they Communist about the scab agency which calls |™Er* CH Tia eee cena itself a “club”; about the big open | toy asy ks ? 7 rcernte fr shop ship owners who contribute to| “The institute differs from “other (1) Important excerpts from the it; and of the profits made on sea-| great hotels” in many respects. We Sixth C. I. Congress in fa “Institute.” |can occupy rooms anywhere else for men who frequent the “Institut SLU eeuny soon anne alee Ritz, Waldorf, or Commodore, and (2) The Open Letter to the Sixth availing ourselves with the privi- leges of the lobby, doze a while, Not Conventi so in the institute! Should we blink @ our eyes in an endeavor to dislodge 5 a cinder or close dreamily for a few (3) The Address to the Membership } (Continued from Page One) |role of the “prostitute” to thousands | moments contemplation of the here- The murderous attack on William | of seamen. now, hitherto or hereafter, heavy Barnshall and Walter MacDonald by | Who Runs tho Institute? {hands grasp our shoulders, gruff WORKERS LIBRARY PUBLIS 125th St. hired thugs of the institute about a| Shipowners under the guise of |Voices shout threats and we are pro- ° NEW YORK CITY eee . |pelled O-U-T. I week ago was no isolated incident. | Godliness have built this class edi- |? Baan, “ Seamen know well that this occurs | fice for the primary eG seg. _ We seamen neous Patan DISCOUNTS OFFERED ON QUANTITY ORDERS |repeatedly. These and other direct |regating seamen and_ restric liance of shipowner and Institute. and indirect repressive activities of | them to the waterfront at their back | We know they are closely allied, i the institute are revealing the true!and call, It is the shipping agency |fact, are one and the same! We Cost 7 S.S. EKER STUYVESANT FRIOAW EVE, rare ‘VERNON ANDRAOES FAMOUS NEGRED RENAISSANCE ORCHESTRA’ AUSPICES:—DAILY WORKER BOAT DOCKS 7P. M.—LEAVES 8 P. M. SHARP—RETURNS 1 A. M., WEST 42nd STREET PIER is Get your tickets from the Daily Worker Office, 26 Union Square, Workers Bookshop, 30 Union Squar Ly Trades Industrial Union, 131 West 28th St.; Millinery Workers, 4 West 37th St.; Unity House, 1800 Se New Masses, 39 Union Square; Sollin’s, 216 Kast Uth St.; th Ave.; Bronx Workers Colony, 2800 Bronx Park Hast.